How to Use over and above in a Sentence

over and above

preposition

• The lawyer described that amount as what the new buyer agreed to pay over and above the Rickmans’ purchase price.
  — Patrick Danner, San Antonio Express-News, 17 Nov. 2021
• There’s something sacred about the archive, over and above the fact of its survival.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2022
• Give a little extra, network, use your charm and be willing to go over and above the call of duty.
  — Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 10 Apr. 2024
• Profits and dividends have both grown over and above the rate of inflation for decades.
  — Ben Carlson, Fortune, 24 Nov. 2021
• The list of data-sharing examples (over and above these two very random ones) goes on and on.
  — Adrian Bridgwater, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2023
• The money the district places in the HRAs is over and above what the district pays toward employee premiums.
  — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 1 Aug. 2023
• And there are benefits over and above helping poor people keep more of their earnings.
  — Lawrence Wintermeyer, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2021
• Epigenetics refers to the information in the genome over and above that contained in the DNA sequence.
  — Paul Haggarty, Discover Magazine, 13 Oct. 2015
• Alito argues that the Second Amendment can be enforced, over and above state law, because of the due-process clause.
  — Corey Robin, The New Yorker, 9 July 2022
• These are benefits paid over and above state UI benefits.
  — Rob Berger, Forbes, 30 May 2021
• To be clear, this is state and federal taxpayers’ money, collected and disbursed over and above the budget needs of the state.
  — Daniel J. Pilla, National Review, 28 July 2022
• What’s punishing is a wide premium over and above the CPI that investors can get from purchasing bonds instead of stocks.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 26 Sep. 2023
• With this credit card, Samsung consumers will get 10% in cashback over and above all existing offers and services around the year.
  — Niharika Sharma, Quartz, 27 Sep. 2022
• The Business Improvement District tax is over and above normal sales taxes.
  — Steve Lord, chicagotribune.com, 27 Aug. 2021
• So this rests on the idea of universality, that there is common behavior over and above the microscopic details of the system.
  — Quanta Magazine, 12 Dec. 2022
• The neuroscientist Kevin Mitchell has argued that the free will of conscious organisms plays a role in determining what will happen in the brain, over and above what is settled by the laws of physics.
  — Philip Goff, Scientific American, 7 Nov. 2023
• Adorned with an array of Mediterranean marbles and topped with a roof, the theater stood as a rare architectural and acoustic feat, over and above the traditional open-air theaters of many Roman towns.
  — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 14 Dec. 2023
• Storm surge is an abnormal rise of water generated by a hurricane or large storm, over and above predicted high or low tides.
  — Robert Gearty, Fox News, 27 Aug. 2021
• To make matters worse, the revenue contraction due to the pandemic has meant that 2020 is seeing a significant capex contraction even over and above that seen in the previous years.
  — Shoaib Daniyal, Quartz India, 30 Nov. 2020
• The country’s homebuilders constructed about two million single family houses over and above the pre-pandemic trend.
  — Bill Conerly, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023
• When an element within the nation seeks its own power and its own way over and above any other factor, that element must be confronted, or else everything might be lost.
  — Jon Meacham, Time, 12 Oct. 2022
• And while some shower head filters may claim to remove other contaminants over and above chlorine and/or soften hard water, just note that a whole-house water softener works best for that.
  — Good Housekeeping, 1 Aug. 2023
• But over and above Li’s disappearance, retailers will worry much more about China’s weak consumption trends.
  — Jane Li, Quartz, 22 June 2022
• That’s not to say all athletic competitions necessarily need to have a point over and above athletics.
  — Time, 29 July 2021
• DeSantis has rightly been fierce in defending his record but never gives the sense, as Trump often did, that fighting with the media is a good thing in its own right, over and above any substantive considerations.
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 9 Apr. 2021
• Our folks have put together finance plans that have created and garnered over and above our normal funding levels because of the demonstrated successes in all of those areas.
  — Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 21 July 2023
• In many countries, including the United States, adult influenza deaths aren’t counted, they are estimated, using formulas that calculate the number of deaths in flu season that are over and above what would be seen at other points in the year.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 9 May 2022
• For example, during the pandemic, Oxford Economics estimates that the labor force lost an extra 2.5 million to 2.7 million boomers over and above the normal retirement rate.
  — Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Nov. 2021
• The White House has consistently warned of a potential cyber front of the Russian war on Ukraine ever since the invasion more than three weeks ago, over and above its regular guidance to state and local governments and big businesses and industry.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 22 Mar. 2022
• Aggravating the situation is the plight of India’s state-run electricity distribution companies, whose losses are now about 1.5 percent of GDP, over and above the fiscal deficits.
  — Arvind Subramanian, Foreign Affairs, 9 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024